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Gigabit Ethernet Switch User's Guide
To make a change to the Custom Forwarding Table, choose
either Add or Remove in the Action field. Then enter the MAC
Address, the Port number that permanently forwards traffic
from the specified device, regardless of the device's network
activity or current network congestion, and press APPLY.
The Custom Filtering Table contains filtering information
configured into the Switch by (local or network) management
specifying the set of ports to which packets received from specific
ports and containing specific destination addresses are not allowed
to be forwarded. You can use the Custom Filtering Table for
network security purposes thereby discarding unwanted addresses
from the Forwarding Table.
Dynamic Filtering and Static Filtering are among the two
important features of the Custom Filtering Table. They are
defined here briefly as follows. Dynamic Filtering is defined when
a dynamic entry is created by the Learning Process as a result of
observation of network traffic in the Filtering Database. Static
Filtering is defined as static entries that may be added and
removed from the Filtering Database by the user. They are not
automatically removed by any timeout mechanism.
To access the Custom Filtering Table, select Configure
Forwarding
and
Filtering
Table
from the
System
Configuration menu. Then select Custom Filtering Table
from the bottom of the Filtering and Forwarding Table
Configuration screen. The following screen appears:
Using the Console Interface
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